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It hasn’t snowed in London in October in more than 70 years, so it came as a bit of a surprise when I got back from a week in the Canary Islands last Tuesday, but did give me an idea for this podcast where you can learn how to make a snowflake in Illustrator, then transform it into a brush in Photoshop.

If you don’t have Illustrator, you can still work along with this exercise by placing the source file (available to registered users) as directed in the podcast, or by using another source.

It is of course also possible to use one of the snowflake vector shapes that already exist inside Photoshop - choose the Custom Shape Tool, then select the nature shape set and you should find some there.

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The last in the current string of animation basics using Flash CS3 builds on the previous exercise by adding a background to our truck animation, in the form of a shape-tweened hill and another motion-tweened scenery movieclip. The concepts you will learn here are simple shape-tweening and creating a cyclic animation using a movie clip designed for that purpose.

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This InDesign Shortcuts Widget (made with WidgetBox) will provide you with a new ID shortcut every day - and an AIR version is available from InDesignShortcuts.co.uk.

After being involved in a typography heavy presentation last week, and showing some kinetic typography movies in the preamble, I keep looking out good examples (V and Pulp Fiction are still my favourites). Although this movie doesn’t really count as it doesn’t represent any dialogue, instead using characters as actors, but it’s so good you really ought to see it.